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(a is Justice Thomas' argument in his concurrence. And it's a TERRIBLE argument. Exactly the sort of "gotcha' textualism that gives lawyers a bad name.
The 1982 amendments to the VRA were literally passed to address districting. Everyone thought that was what they were doing.
The 1982 amendments to the VRA were literally passed to address districting. Everyone thought that was what they were doing.
The only reason they were even changing the VRA in 1982 was to address the holding of a case called Mobile v Bolden from 1980. Bolden involved a challenge to an at large districting system. SCOTUS applied a discriminatory intent test Congress thought too strict.
So, they passed the amendment you see quoted in Callais. Yes I know it doesn't use the word "districting". But that's a totally silly and un-legal argument-- things can be about a topic without using the word.
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I have watched the left demonstrate in major US cities, and from what I have seen I can conclude the following.
They hate billionaires — though the billionaires are supporting their protests and their political leaders.
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They hate billionaires — though the billionaires are supporting their protests and their political leaders.
1)
They want to abolish “ICE,” but cannot tell you, when asked, what ICE is and does.
They repeat slogans about democracy, but they cannot define it, or worse.
They seem to know what they are against, but they cannot tell anyone why, nor can they articulate what they are for.
2)
They repeat slogans about democracy, but they cannot define it, or worse.
They seem to know what they are against, but they cannot tell anyone why, nor can they articulate what they are for.
2)
It is all emotion, repetition of slogans, and yet meaningless — activity for the sake of activity.
So what can we conclude from all of this?
That Americans are either uninformed, uneducated, or stupid.
Sad to say it."
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So what can we conclude from all of this?
That Americans are either uninformed, uneducated, or stupid.
Sad to say it."
3)
@HarmeetKDhillon You should check out the Museum of Immigration and its radical woke exhibits.
Here’s something showing total ignorance of our immigration laws.
Here’s something showing total ignorance of our immigration laws.
@HarmeetKDhillon Lionizing illegal immigration, as if America is obligated to welcome everyone in the world who wants to live here.
@HarmeetKDhillon And blaming America for enacting immigration restrictions 1921 and 1924.
🚨COMEY🚨
Lots of Google Law School alumnae citing the Counterman case claiming the case against Comey will be dismissed.
IT WON'T!
The same alums say his post could only be taken as a joke and acquittal is 100% inevitable.
IT ISN'T!
Here's why:
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Lots of Google Law School alumnae citing the Counterman case claiming the case against Comey will be dismissed.
IT WON'T!
The same alums say his post could only be taken as a joke and acquittal is 100% inevitable.
IT ISN'T!
Here's why:
🧵1/
It’s true that nearly all speech is protected by the First Amendment. And Courts are reluctant to affirm laws that criminalize speech because it chills free expression.
I agree with that.
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I agree with that.
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That said, SCOTUS has upheld statutes (to include those with which Comey is charged) that penalize speech/expression.
-Obscenity (Miller v Cal.)
-Defamation (NYTimes vs Sullivan)
-Incitement (Brandenburg)
-True Threats (Counterman)
Comey's charges regard "true threats".
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-Obscenity (Miller v Cal.)
-Defamation (NYTimes vs Sullivan)
-Incitement (Brandenburg)
-True Threats (Counterman)
Comey's charges regard "true threats".
3/
We've been lied to about our entire history and the origins of human civilization. We're still being lied to because of what's coming. But you can put two and two together if you look outside their mainstream scientific framework.
The speed of the North Magnetic Pole's movement was around 10 km per year for most of the 20th century, then suddenly increased in the 1990s to over 50 km per year, moving toward Siberia...
They made this graphic in 2025, and what it reveals will change how you see your future, this is why billionaires are building doomsday bunkers! (1/9)🧵
The speed of the North Magnetic Pole's movement was around 10 km per year for most of the 20th century, then suddenly increased in the 1990s to over 50 km per year, moving toward Siberia...
They made this graphic in 2025, and what it reveals will change how you see your future, this is why billionaires are building doomsday bunkers! (1/9)🧵
NASA has done irreversible damage and has directly influenced public opinion about the upcoming event!😡
They claim in a simple blog, without showing any evidence, that the current shifting of the poles and the geomagnetic excursion don’t cause climate change. But internally, they know that geomagnetic excursions are closely tied to the abrupt climate change events they also anticipate! (2/9)🧵
They claim in a simple blog, without showing any evidence, that the current shifting of the poles and the geomagnetic excursion don’t cause climate change. But internally, they know that geomagnetic excursions are closely tied to the abrupt climate change events they also anticipate! (2/9)🧵
Behind closed doors, NASA was conducting secret internal reports about climate change and how they expected an abrupt event, warning that the USA needed to prepare for it. The document leaked in 2004, and everything they described is happening today!
The report was produced by the California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, which is part of NASA! They compare the current climate change with three events, all of which are heavily intertwined with the Earth’s magnetic field. Both the Younger Dryas, 12,000 years ago, and the 8.2 kiloyear event correspond with geomagnetic excursions. The third example is the Little Ice Age around 1300 AD, which corresponds to a Grand Solar Minimum and increased cosmic radiation! (3/9)🧵
The report was produced by the California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, which is part of NASA! They compare the current climate change with three events, all of which are heavily intertwined with the Earth’s magnetic field. Both the Younger Dryas, 12,000 years ago, and the 8.2 kiloyear event correspond with geomagnetic excursions. The third example is the Little Ice Age around 1300 AD, which corresponds to a Grand Solar Minimum and increased cosmic radiation! (3/9)🧵
This is the story of a tragic death of an Indian boy, from Gordon's Residential School in Saskatchewan, in 1939
He ran away in winter, and was found one mile from home.
Does this thread fit the narrative we are told?🧵
He ran away in winter, and was found one mile from home.
Does this thread fit the narrative we are told?🧵
Upon seeing the story in the news in Regina, the Government Minister responsible in Ottawa sent a telegram to the local Indian Agent to find out what happened, at once
Compare that to today . . .
Compare that to today . . .
Except the Indian Affairs Agent had already contacted the school principal to find out what happened.
This letter is from the teacher to the principal advising they took 36 boys to go skating and tobogganing, when the boy ran away.
This letter is from the teacher to the principal advising they took 36 boys to go skating and tobogganing, when the boy ran away.
I posted the first picture you see earlier in the day, and promised all of you an explanation. Well, I don't have one 🤣. So, I guess we can just test these Compaq laptops out instead. And... things are going well, except for a couple of my screwups. Time for a 🧵
Alright, here we go, all of the laptops on the desk. Yes, the one LTE Elite on the right is thrashed, I paid $3.33 for it, hoping to get some parts!
Let's see what we have. Here it is, all torn down. Sadly, it doesn't power on. Oh well. Maybe the screen is good! We'll test that another day.
So I read this today and was inspired to write Mark Carney a letter. @StuartSyvret @jebrittan2 @andrewlownie @JoannaColes @MichaelWolffNYC
I began my email like this.
The Canadian Jewish News interview with Stephen Bronfman March 5/2025 titled: Stephen Bronfman is starting a new Jewish climate fund to counter Trump’s environmental cuts.
Huge news in China today since Bessent actually sanctioned larger entities this time. Hengli is a huge deal. China is entirely willing to fight economic war over this from what I can see.
I will now talk about why Hengli is a big deal & why Trump admin stepped over the line.
I will now talk about why Hengli is a big deal & why Trump admin stepped over the line.
Hengli in Dalian Changxing Island was built w/ 280B RMB in total investment. Dalian is 1 of China's 7 major petrochem base. 20mt/yr of refining, 1.5mt/yr Ethylene, 17mt of PTA + 5mt/yr of coal chemical.
It had 201B RMB in rev in 2025. Its parent Hengli group made 899B.
It had 201B RMB in rev in 2025. Its parent Hengli group made 899B.
Dalian Changxing island is the end pt & export terminal for NorthEast provinces entire green hydrogen strategy where green chemical get shipped here for shipping, bunkering & chemical production.
Hengli is a huge deal here, other Chinese companies can't avoid working with them.
Hengli is a huge deal here, other Chinese companies can't avoid working with them.
🧵1/3 Susan Kokinda: “Donald Trump Is Redistricting the World”
While King Charles was in Washington trying to rally support for the Ukraine war and preserve the “special relationship,” President Trump was on a 90-minute call with Vladimir Putin.
President Trump revealed he had urged a ceasefire, and Putin appeared receptive.
Hours later, the Kremlin confirmed a Victory Day ceasefire. Russian spokesman Ushakov then dropped the line the media completely buried: Putin and Trump share the same assessment: Zelensky’s regime is deliberately prolonging the conflict with encouragement and support from European countries.
This wasn’t new for Trump. He has repeatedly blamed Zelensky and Europe for keeping the war going, while hitting Britain, the EU, and NATO for refusing to confront Iran. The day before the call, the U.S. announced it was pulling 5,000 troops from Germany.
King Charles spent the week papering over the rift with a carefully staged visit.
French President Macron was more blunt: the U.S., Russia, and China are now “categorically opposing” Europe …the post-war order is over.
The real autopsy came at Chatham House (the British Empire’s premier think tank) the previous week. Speakers openly admitted the “special relationship” a phrase they themselves coined with the Council on Foreign Relations and popularized by Churchill in 1946 - was created by a declining Britain to use America as its “dumb giant.”
General Sir Richard Barrons, author of Britain’s own strategic defense review, stated plainly that Britain and Europe can no longer expect the U.S. taxpayer to underwrite their security at roughly $400 billion a year (in today’s dollars).
“It’s not coming back,” he said. The 76-year arrangement (since NATO in 1949) where Europe directed American military power for its own purposes is finished…and the empire knows it.
This is the deeper “redistricting” Trump is doing, far beyond any domestic headlines. Economically, it showed up this week when the UAE announced it was leaving OPEC.
Trump called it “great” and praised UAE leader Mohammed bin Zayed as a smart, independent thinker who wants to go his own way - ultimately good for lowering oil and gas prices.
To understand why this is massive, Kokinda explains the system the UAE is exiting. It traces back to 1971, when Britain orchestrated the attack on the U.S. dollar that forced Nixon to end the Bretton Woods gold standard.
The dollar became a plaything for global financiers. OPEC was set up under City of London guidance as a supply-and-price cartel.
Henry Kissinger then layered on the petrodollar system: OPEC nations would only sell oil in dollars, which flowed into London’s offshore dollar market and turned the world economy into a giant casino.
Physical production existed only to feed the speculative bubble.
Kissinger was candid - he kept the British Foreign Office better informed than the U.S. State Department.
King Charles even invoked Kissinger by name during his congressional speech, praising the “Atlantic partnership” of twin pillars (Europe and America) that Kissinger helped build.
The entire architecture depended on controlled instability in the Gulf, Iran holding the Strait of Hormuz as the empire’s on-off switch for oil prices and petrodollar flows.
While King Charles was in Washington trying to rally support for the Ukraine war and preserve the “special relationship,” President Trump was on a 90-minute call with Vladimir Putin.
President Trump revealed he had urged a ceasefire, and Putin appeared receptive.
Hours later, the Kremlin confirmed a Victory Day ceasefire. Russian spokesman Ushakov then dropped the line the media completely buried: Putin and Trump share the same assessment: Zelensky’s regime is deliberately prolonging the conflict with encouragement and support from European countries.
This wasn’t new for Trump. He has repeatedly blamed Zelensky and Europe for keeping the war going, while hitting Britain, the EU, and NATO for refusing to confront Iran. The day before the call, the U.S. announced it was pulling 5,000 troops from Germany.
King Charles spent the week papering over the rift with a carefully staged visit.
French President Macron was more blunt: the U.S., Russia, and China are now “categorically opposing” Europe …the post-war order is over.
The real autopsy came at Chatham House (the British Empire’s premier think tank) the previous week. Speakers openly admitted the “special relationship” a phrase they themselves coined with the Council on Foreign Relations and popularized by Churchill in 1946 - was created by a declining Britain to use America as its “dumb giant.”
General Sir Richard Barrons, author of Britain’s own strategic defense review, stated plainly that Britain and Europe can no longer expect the U.S. taxpayer to underwrite their security at roughly $400 billion a year (in today’s dollars).
“It’s not coming back,” he said. The 76-year arrangement (since NATO in 1949) where Europe directed American military power for its own purposes is finished…and the empire knows it.
This is the deeper “redistricting” Trump is doing, far beyond any domestic headlines. Economically, it showed up this week when the UAE announced it was leaving OPEC.
Trump called it “great” and praised UAE leader Mohammed bin Zayed as a smart, independent thinker who wants to go his own way - ultimately good for lowering oil and gas prices.
To understand why this is massive, Kokinda explains the system the UAE is exiting. It traces back to 1971, when Britain orchestrated the attack on the U.S. dollar that forced Nixon to end the Bretton Woods gold standard.
The dollar became a plaything for global financiers. OPEC was set up under City of London guidance as a supply-and-price cartel.
Henry Kissinger then layered on the petrodollar system: OPEC nations would only sell oil in dollars, which flowed into London’s offshore dollar market and turned the world economy into a giant casino.
Physical production existed only to feed the speculative bubble.
Kissinger was candid - he kept the British Foreign Office better informed than the U.S. State Department.
King Charles even invoked Kissinger by name during his congressional speech, praising the “Atlantic partnership” of twin pillars (Europe and America) that Kissinger helped build.
The entire architecture depended on controlled instability in the Gulf, Iran holding the Strait of Hormuz as the empire’s on-off switch for oil prices and petrodollar flows.
2/3 (CONTINUED)
President Trump has been dismantling those levers: the Abraham Accords began the realignment, and now the UAE (which has suffered more Iranian missile attacks than Israel) is hosting Israeli Iron Dome batteries and IDF personnel on its soil for the first time.
The old imperial binary that kept Arab states and Israel permanently at each other’s throats - and dependent on outside management - is dissolving.
The same shift is happening inside America. While headlines focused on Hegseth’s testimony about Iran and the defense budget, almost no one noticed the creation of the Office of Strategic Capital inside the Department of War - an internal investment bank with roughly $210 billion in lending authority.
President Trump has been dismantling those levers: the Abraham Accords began the realignment, and now the UAE (which has suffered more Iranian missile attacks than Israel) is hosting Israeli Iron Dome batteries and IDF personnel on its soil for the first time.
The old imperial binary that kept Arab states and Israel permanently at each other’s throats - and dependent on outside management - is dissolving.
The same shift is happening inside America. While headlines focused on Hegseth’s testimony about Iran and the defense budget, almost no one noticed the creation of the Office of Strategic Capital inside the Department of War - an internal investment bank with roughly $210 billion in lending authority.
3/3 (CONTINUED)
Its mission: directly fund the national security industrial base, scale production, support R&D, modernize facilities, and de-risk private investment in critical industries.
This is the opposite of waiting for Wall Street to decide whether a munitions plant or rare-earth processor delivers quarterly returns.
It identifies what America actually needs and funds it - exactly the Hamiltonian American System President FDR used to build the Arsenal of Democracy.
Since the end of Bretton Woods, capital has been hijacked by speculators at the expense of the real economy and national security.
The Office of Strategic Capital reverses that. It is one of the most important institutional developments in U.S. economic policy in 50 years, and it was ignored.
Kokinda, who has tracked this British imperial grip on the U.S. economy since 1971, argues that Trump is simultaneously ending the Ukraine war on terms that align Washington and Moscow against the empire’s war machine, cracking the petrodollar trap via the UAE’s exit, and building new American credit institutions to fuel industrial rebirth.
King Charles came to Washington to pull the U.S. back into the old system.
President Trump smiled, toasted, and kept reshaping the strategic and economic map.
The empire will not go quietly. But the post-1949/1971 order is finished.
America is finally drawing its own lines - based on sovereign production and real economic development rather than financial speculation and endless conflict managed from London.
This is the full picture most media missed.
If you only watch mainstream coverage, you see fragments.
If you listen to Promethean Action and Susan Kokinda, you see the coherent strategy: President Trump is ending America’s long role as Britain’s “dumb giant” and building the independent American system we were never allowed to have.
Its mission: directly fund the national security industrial base, scale production, support R&D, modernize facilities, and de-risk private investment in critical industries.
This is the opposite of waiting for Wall Street to decide whether a munitions plant or rare-earth processor delivers quarterly returns.
It identifies what America actually needs and funds it - exactly the Hamiltonian American System President FDR used to build the Arsenal of Democracy.
Since the end of Bretton Woods, capital has been hijacked by speculators at the expense of the real economy and national security.
The Office of Strategic Capital reverses that. It is one of the most important institutional developments in U.S. economic policy in 50 years, and it was ignored.
Kokinda, who has tracked this British imperial grip on the U.S. economy since 1971, argues that Trump is simultaneously ending the Ukraine war on terms that align Washington and Moscow against the empire’s war machine, cracking the petrodollar trap via the UAE’s exit, and building new American credit institutions to fuel industrial rebirth.
King Charles came to Washington to pull the U.S. back into the old system.
President Trump smiled, toasted, and kept reshaping the strategic and economic map.
The empire will not go quietly. But the post-1949/1971 order is finished.
America is finally drawing its own lines - based on sovereign production and real economic development rather than financial speculation and endless conflict managed from London.
This is the full picture most media missed.
If you only watch mainstream coverage, you see fragments.
If you listen to Promethean Action and Susan Kokinda, you see the coherent strategy: President Trump is ending America’s long role as Britain’s “dumb giant” and building the independent American system we were never allowed to have.
This is seemingly my regular PSA that the “smoke point” of oil is mostly bullshit. Yes you can use extra virgin olive oil at high heat.
I don’t know how this all started, but the “smoke point” of oil just means the temperature it burns at an extended period of time. That’s relatively important for deep frying, but for regular cooking it doesn’t mean shit. Just work quickly, precisely, and you don’t need to blast everything on high heat. You can sear a steak perfectly at medium- medium low just as well as at full blast.
And yes; every Italian kitchen is using extra virgin for everything, even the “high heat” stuff. So are Spanish kitchens. Stop listening to pasty white people who tell you to use “neutral oil with a high smoke point”. That’s bullshit. Italians, Spaniards, Latin Americans, Indians, Persians, Turks, Greeks, Moroccans, Egyptians, southern French, Croatians,… we all use olive oil for almost everything.
Covert narcissistic abuse follows a calculated pattern that starts with idealization and ends in destruction—but all under the radar.
At first, the narcissist seems supportive, thoughtful, and even vulnerable. Typically showering their target with grandiose compliments and mirrored experiences in an attempt to gain trust.
But over time, their compliments give way to subtle criticisms disguised as concern, slowly chipping away at your confidence.
When you push back or set boundaries, they flip the script—claiming you're overly sensitive or can't handle feedback—while continuing to gaslight, distort reality, and maintain a spotless public image.
There’s a very consistent pattern : 🧵
At first, the narcissist seems supportive, thoughtful, and even vulnerable. Typically showering their target with grandiose compliments and mirrored experiences in an attempt to gain trust.
But over time, their compliments give way to subtle criticisms disguised as concern, slowly chipping away at your confidence.
When you push back or set boundaries, they flip the script—claiming you're overly sensitive or can't handle feedback—while continuing to gaslight, distort reality, and maintain a spotless public image.
There’s a very consistent pattern : 🧵
1. Love Bombing Phase
This is the hook—where the covert narcissist appears kind, understanding, insightful, and even “empathic.”
What it looks like:
They mirror your values, dreams, and insecurities.
They compliment your intelligence, depth, or uniqueness—feeding what you most long to be seen for.
They appear to be emotionally available, even vulnerable, and deeply invested in you.
They often present themselves as victims of past abuse to elicit your sympathy and make you feel “safe” with them.
Why they do it:
To create a strong emotional bond.
To earn your trust quickly.
To gather personal information they will later weaponize.
This is the hook—where the covert narcissist appears kind, understanding, insightful, and even “empathic.”
What it looks like:
They mirror your values, dreams, and insecurities.
They compliment your intelligence, depth, or uniqueness—feeding what you most long to be seen for.
They appear to be emotionally available, even vulnerable, and deeply invested in you.
They often present themselves as victims of past abuse to elicit your sympathy and make you feel “safe” with them.
Why they do it:
To create a strong emotional bond.
To earn your trust quickly.
To gather personal information they will later weaponize.
2. Subtle Devaluation Begins (Still Looks Like “Support”)
Once you’re emotionally invested, the covert narcissist slowly starts shifting the dynamic—but in a way that’s plausibly deniable.
Tactics:
Slightly critical “observations” disguised as concern or advice:
“You might want to be careful how you come off to others…”
“I know you mean well, but that probably didn’t land the way you think.”
Undermining your self-perception in subtle ways:
“You’re kind of sensitive, aren’t you?”
“You always need things to be perfect.”
Giving unsolicited feedback that doesn’t match your behavior, or exaggerating faults.
What’s happening:
They’re planting seeds of self-doubt.
They’re training you to second-guess yourself according to their version of reality.
They’re quietly building a case to justify the next phases of control…
Once you’re emotionally invested, the covert narcissist slowly starts shifting the dynamic—but in a way that’s plausibly deniable.
Tactics:
Slightly critical “observations” disguised as concern or advice:
“You might want to be careful how you come off to others…”
“I know you mean well, but that probably didn’t land the way you think.”
Undermining your self-perception in subtle ways:
“You’re kind of sensitive, aren’t you?”
“You always need things to be perfect.”
Giving unsolicited feedback that doesn’t match your behavior, or exaggerating faults.
What’s happening:
They’re planting seeds of self-doubt.
They’re training you to second-guess yourself according to their version of reality.
They’re quietly building a case to justify the next phases of control…
